In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump this past weekend, Joe Biden said from the Oval Office last night tha “there is no place in America for this kind of violence.” However, in a very tight race leaning towards his predecessor the incumbent made it very clear to NBC’s Lester Holt today he isn’t interested in playing as game of false equivalency. “Look, I’m not engaged in that rhetoric,” Biden said to the news anchor in an interview filed this afternoon in the White House when questioned about comments he has made in the past that may be seen as incendiary. “Now my opponent is against that rhetoric.
He talks about bloodbath if he loses, talking about how he’s going to forgive …I guess suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened to the capital,” POTUS added of the January 6 mob that Trump and his MAGA supporters call “political prisoners” – as you can see below.In an exclusive interview with Lester Holt, President Biden said it was a mistake to use the word “bullseye” while discussing former President Trump, but said to “focus on what [Trump is] doing”.
pic.twitter.com/TufdyiZq8v While certainly engaging in some verbal wallops and out and out dog whistling over the past decade, the Trump campaign has long claimed the comment by their candidate in March in Ohio has been grossly taken out of context by Democrats and others.
They say Trump’s “it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country” had nothing to do with the ballot box and was a reference to Biden’s economic polices for the manufacturing industry and the toll imported cars can take on domestic workers.
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